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Things I Must Do In My Lifetime -or- The Living Big – a detailed account (continued…) 76) Make a balloon animal. 77) Have a respectable savings account. 78) Write an anonymous note and leave it for a stranger to find. 79) Find a cure for hiccups (I’m really close). 80) Figure out why everyone has…

Well, here we go: take 2. After yesterday’s failed attempt, today I succeeded in my mondo Tour de Nashville on foot. I kept my eyes open for anything that might catch my attention; here are some of the many. Immediately, I was reminded that spring is almost here. Did you know that there is a…

You can take the girl out of Seattle, but… It started as such a good idea. On New Years’ Day, Greta had done a mega-Seattle walk, 10+ miles with her digital camera, taking pictures of noteworthy things. So, I decided that today, I would follow suit and take several hours to explore Nashville on foot,…

Today was a day for things that needed doing. Sleeping. Drinking coffee. Cleaning. Laundry. And yes, the moment you have all been waiting for: making a video of my new little home. I present to you: Chez Hootenannie. New home in Nashville from Annie Parsons on Vimeo. I love it! Don’t you love it? It’s…

My love, You know the old saying, “It’s not you, it’s me”? Well, sorry. This time, it is definitely you. We’ve been together for a long time. So long, in fact, that I can scarcely remember a time when we were apart. There was that one time during my freshman year of college when I…

Greta gave me the world’s greatest gift. Of all time. Of the universe of life. She designed it – one for me, one for her. Sorry, ladies – this is not available in stores. How did I ever manage to wrangle such amazingly rad friends?

There’s this fantastic thing that happens whenever I fly into Seattle at night. The approach is always from the southeast, and I start watching for the city about 25 minutes before landing, as soon as the captain announces “our initial descent.” Pretty soon, the orange lights begin to twinkle in the distance. We fly over…

I have scarcely lived here for 3 weeks, and I have already won something. I never win anything! But through a local tapas restaurant, I won two tickets to the opera. My new friend Erika came with me, and we saw Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore,” which was incredibly silly and enjoyable, as it was…

After attending a church service on Sunday night, I offered to give a new friend a ride home. As we walked toward my car, she stopped. “Wait, this is YOUR car?” “Yes…?” I replied, hesitantly. “My roommate and I have seen you all over town! We’ve been wondering who you are. In fact, we were…

On Friday, on the way back from Taos, Mom and I were driving north on a 2-lane highway through the desert. Snow covered the ground as far as the eye could see, coating the horizon in a uniform white. But suddenly, east of the highway, something caught my eye. “Mom, turn around!” I cried. “What?…